Lots of Maters

lakngulf · Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:55 pm

I am tyring several varieties of tomatoes this year and I have tried to space the starts so as to spread out the planting times. I now have maters, maters and more maters in various stages.

From just spouted:
[img]https://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/lakngulf/001_2012_April/IMG_0440.jpg[/img]

to five inch peat pots:
[img]https://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/lakngulf/001_2012_April/ATT93792.jpg[/img]

to ready to plant as soon as I dare:
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to a few that I have already put in the ground or pots. The full ones I had in the greenhouse over the winter:
[img]https://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/lakngulf/001_2012_April/IMG_0435.jpg[/img]

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Still feels a little too chilly for the blossoms to set fruit, but this weather is tempting.

PenPalAnna · Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:09 am

I'm so jealous! Mine are still itty bitty. Will tomatoes cross pollinate? I have a few different varieties that I want to plant. Should I but a good bit of distance between them?

applestar · Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:07 am

WOW LG! You are fully prepared with back ups of back ups! good luck with your tomatoes this year!

PPA, try this thread

https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27803

gixxerific · Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:27 am

Awesome lankngulf, looking good. Heres to great season.

Penpal if you are wanting to save seed, which is the only reason to worry about x-pollination. you can bag you flowers with something to keep them pure. If they cross it won't effect your tomatos this season.

gixxerific · Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:37 am

Meant to say Lakngulf that those lights are too far away from your plants. They should be close, like 4-8 inches away or so. If you rasied the lights for the pic ignore this.

Good luck friend. I seem to remember you having problems last year.

Heres to a great year.

KeriFord · Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:24 am

they look wonderful! I keep checking my planted seeds for some growth. gah. I hate the waiting part!

lakngulf · Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:53 pm

The weather has just been so nice that I put out some more tomatoes. These are in soil where tomatoes bit the dust last year. This year I have two varieties that are supposed to resist southern bacterial wilt. In this box I have four Neptune, four Florida 7514, one Better Boy and one Beef Steak. Last year, Better Boys and Celebrities died in this box.

[img]https://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/lakngulf/001_2012_April/IMG_0528.jpg[/img]

In case the tomatoes fail, the left side of the box has Silver Queen corn. That will be interesting, especially if the tomatoes make it.

lakngulf · Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:57 pm

I have so many tomatoes that I decided to try some at my farmland/hunting property. I have been growing some sawtooth oaks, planted some of them, and plan to water them along the way. Since I will be there I can water the tomatoes as well. Was not sure where I was going to plant them, but this looked like a good spot. Maybe inside the hay rack the critters will let some of them live.

[img]https://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/lakngulf/001_2012_April/IMG_0511.jpg[/img]

Yes, they are really out in the middle of a pasture.

[img]https://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab104/lakngulf/001_2012_April/IMG_0512.jpg[/img]

applestar · Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:24 pm

I wonder if we'll be able to see the hay rack come the end of the summer.

gixxerific · Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:18 am

Great idea pittuing them in the pasture. I wish I had some land somewhere else to put a bunch more in. I had to NOT plant a bunch due to lack of room in my garden.

applestar · Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:13 am

The more I look at the pictures, more I like that haystack as a garden bed surround idea.

Can you duck through one of the openings to get inside?

Duh_Vinci · Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:45 pm

Wow, that is the most tomatoes I've seen anyone has in the ground this year - have a great growing season!!!

Regards,
D

lakngulf · Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:33 pm

applestar wrote:The more I look at the pictures, more I like that haystack as a garden bed surround idea. Can you duck through one of the openings to get inside?

I am learning how to negotiate that. I actually climb over, BUT, the rack sits on three legs, and I have to be sure to climb at one of them.

lakngulf · Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:36 am

Over the winter I had four or five tomato plants in my greenhouse. When the weather warmed I moved two of them outside and left the others in the greenhouse. I had about decided against growing them in the greenhouse next year because they bloomed but would not put on fruit.

Well, I have changed my mind. The two moved outside and the plants still in the greenhouse are now loaded with little tomatoes

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